We've been using information from a site for a while now (something that the site allows if you mention the source and we do) and we've been copying the information by hand. As you could imagine this can become tedious pretty fast so I've been trying to automate the process by fetching the information with a PHP script.

Well, it works even with file_get_contents(), so there's no protection whatsoever. Sorry for wasting everybody's time :)
– pandronicNov 15 '10 at 13:56

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@pandronic: I would suggest still masking it. They could be watching the logs and mightn't like people scraping the data, so take precautions to prevent them from blocking automated tools. (just my $0.02)
– Reese MooreNov 15 '10 at 14:00